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Ese Esan

That's right, table tennis is getting a trendy makeover at the hands of Diallo Smith, owner of the new Drive Table Tennis Social Club on Woodward in Detroit. It opened Dec. 14, but Smith had been holding pop-up Ping-Pong events for a year before that.

"A lot of people ask, 'Why table tennis?' My most common answer is, 'Why not?' " Smith says. "From a business perspective, table tennis has kind of had a bad brand. You think of basements and rec centers. It's such a great thing to do that we wanted to take it out ...